Category: Occasional Publications
UNION BREAD
BAGELS, PLATZELS AND CHOLLAH: THE STORY OF THE LONDON JEWISH BAKERS’ UNION
Jewish Socialists’ Group and Socialist History Society
by LARRY WAYNE
UNION BREAD is a story both of division and of solidarity. There were bitter divisions between Jewish and non-Jewish Bakers over the issue of Sunday baking, and between the journeymen and the masters. Read on ...
Annual General Meeting and Book Launch
The Socialist History Society will be holding its first in-person meeting since the start of the current public health emergency.
Marx Memorial Library – 37a Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU
Underground Farringdon station on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.
Saturday 7th May
1pm AGM – all welcome, but only members can vote. Read on ...
On Strike Against the Nazis
The e-book can be downloaded from here…
Class Struggle and Resistance in Northern France and Belgium during the Second World War
By Steve Cushion
The class struggle did not disappear during the Second World War following the occupation of Europe by the German armed forces. In northern France and Belgium a shop steward-based movement quickly emerged, mainly led by communist activists, that attempted to defend and advance wages and conditions and, above all access to sufficient food for working class families. Read on ...
Writers of the Left in an Age of Extremes
Launch meeting for the SHS’s latest Occasional Publication
6.30pm, Saturday, 29 May
You can download David Morgan’s presentation about Edgell Rickword from here…
The joint authors of the publication discuss why the writers who are featured still matter. David Morgan will speak about Edgell Rickword and Greta Sykes will speak about Anna Seghers and Carlo Levi. Read on ...